Proverbs 5:23

A Conservative Version

He shall die for lack of instruction. And in the greatness of his folly he shall go astray.

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But if they do not hearken, they shall perish by the sword, and they shall die without knowledge.

Is not their tent-cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.

An evil man is thrust down in his evil-doing, but a righteous man has hope in his death.

The lips of a righteous man feeds many, but the foolish die for lack of understanding.

The backslider in heart shall be filled with his own ways, and a good man from his own fruits.

So I let them go after the stubbornness of their heart, that they might walk in their own counsels.

Therefore they shall eat of the fruit of their own way, and be filled with their own devices.

And he has brought upon them their own iniquity, and will cut them off in their own wickedness. LORD our God will cut them off.

A man shall be commended according to his wisdom, but he who is of a perverse heart shall be despised.

The man who wanders out of the way of understanding shall rest in the assembly of the dead.